Breaking Boundaries – About Racism/Inequality in Design

“Where Are All the Black Designers” A Roundtable Discussion

By: Silas Munro (AIGA), 2021

Roundtable discussion with Cheryl D. Miller, Mitzi Okou, and Maurice Cherry


“Black Designers Missing in Action”

By: Cheryl D. Miller (Print Magazine), 1987.

Article confronting racial inequality in the design field in 1987 that is still relevant today.


“What Decolonising Design Involves”: Two Programs for Emanciptation

By: Ahmed Ansari (Decolonising Design), 2018.

An article detailing plans of action in decolonizing design such as creating space for designers and design researchers outside “the confines of the Anglo-European sphere”, thinking outside what design is today, and more.


“The Linguistic Overlap of Color Theory and Racism”

By: Risa Puelo (Hypeallregic), 2016.

Artist Tomashi Jackson discusses the similarities between color theory and racial segregation and her work that conceptually intertwines color theory and human rights


“The Black Experience in Graphic Design”

By: Letterform Archive, 2020.

Featuring Dorthy Jackson’s article from 1968, “The Black Experience in Graphic Design”, and interviews with BIPOC designers today asked to compare their experience with the 1968 experience.